Honour sits smiling at the sale of truth.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYIt is not a merit to tolerate, but rather a crime to be intolerant.
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Then black despair, The shadow of a starless night, was thrown Over the world in which I moved alone.
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It is not a merit to tolerate, but rather a crime to be intolerant.
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When the lamp is shattered The light in the dust lies dead – When the cloud is scattered The rainbow’s glory is shed.
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Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration; the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present.
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History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.
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In fact, truth cannot be communicated until it is perceived.
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Hell is a city much like London A populous and smoky city.
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If God has spoken, why is the world not convinced.
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First our pleasures die – and then our hopes, and then our fears – and when these are dead, the debt is due dust claims dust – and we die too.
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Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, – but it returneth!
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Sometimes it’s better to put love into hugs than to put it into words. Soul meets soul on lovers’ lips.
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I pant, I sink, I tremble, I expire!
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The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.
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There Is No God. This negation must be understood solely to affect a creative Deity. The hypothesis of a pervading Spirit co-eternal with the universe remains unshaken.
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Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
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